Deborah Blum, author of THE POISONER’S HANDBOOK: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, is speaking Thursday April 8th at noon in 1244 HSLC, as part of the Authors@HSLC series. Blum is also a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When doing research for The Poisoner’s Handbook she used the Ebling Library’s assistance and collections for material from the 1940s. Deborah was doing research on the drug thallium and Mary Hitchcock, now Ebling’s School of Nursing liaison librarian, helped her track down resources. As Mary reported, “… [I] did some detective work on locating articles, verifying citations, scanning articles when she (Blum) couldn’t come in (to Ebling), and giving her an ear to bounce ideas/excitement off of.” We can’t guarantee that doing research at Ebling will win you a Pulitzer Prize like Blum’s for science writing, but Ebling’s liaison librarians can offer assistance and instruction on a variety of clinical, medical, research, and historical resources. Let us know if we can help…